Other trends and lessons learned are of significance to a discussion of a future force structure.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
The reality of sequestration also threatens force structure and undermines recapitalization and modernization programs.
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Most subsequent studies of strategy and force structure, including the 2010 QDR, reflect the same ideas.
Defense planners also changed prospective war outcomes to avoid confronting the reality of force structure shortfalls.
Clearly, as a result, the Navy will be unable to achieve its needed force structure.
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The 2010 QDR made only marginal additional changes to the force structure inherited from the Bush Administration.
Nor did it propose a new and innovative approach for solving the problem of an insufficient force structure.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
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As demonstrated by Desert Storm and OIF, the force structure needed to address even a single MRC is substantial.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
Modernize and replace the aging inventories of the Air Force, Army, and Marines, and selectively strengthen our force structure.
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The Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel provided a very different perspective on the two-MTW standard and associated force structure.
Even then, it was unclear whether the U.S. force structure was sufficient to achieve a decisive win in the second theater.
Section V develops a top-level assessment of the costs associated with sculpting the planned force structure to meet the two-MRC test.
The impacts described above assume that the force structure in place today will be adequate throughout the greenhouse gas reduction period.
To make sure we have the right force structure, we've halted reductions in Navy personnel and increased the size of the Marine Corps.
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The new guidance does permit the DOD to take additional risk by reducing those elements of the force structure that are deemed less necessary.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
Basically, a two-MRC force structure was twice this number of forces.
The two-MRC force structure served as a hedge against strategic surprise.
Section IV defines a 21st-century standard for a two-MRC force structure.
The decision to shift from the semblance of a two-MRC force structure to a one-and-a-half force suggests the opportunity for a significant reduction in ground forces.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
The panel recommended an alternative force structure that would return the Air Force and Navy to the size proposed by the BUR almost 20 years earlier.
Although the BUR endorsed the principle of maintaining a force structure capable of fighting and decisively winning two MRCs, it hedged on the question of simultaneity.
This paper defines the essential quantitative and qualitative characteristics of a U.S. force structure required to meet the two-MRC standard for the near term and midterm.
" Mr. McKeon goes on, though, to observe that the QDR "does little to address the risk resulting from the gaps in funding, capability and force structure.
Any future force structure clearly needs both quantity and quality.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
Nor does the White House intend to decide what the new U.S. nuclear force structure will look like until as many as seven years after the treaty is ratified.
The Base Force was described as the minimum force structure to enable the United States to address its continuing global security interests and to project the aura of a global superpower.
Do current bomber force structure plans meet projected needs?
Yet successive defense programs have justified reductions in force structure on the grounds that quantitative improvements in platforms, systems, and manpower allow commanders to do the same or even more with less.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century
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